I have spent far too much time monitoring the economic situation over the last few days. It makes no difference to my current situation or investment plan. However, I have been distracted by comments about how the debt ceiling crisis could be contagious, a disaster, a second financial crisis.

We have a duty to do what we can. But sometimes we are limited and we cannot fix the problem. The feeding of the 4000 was one of those situations.

Mark 8:1-10

1In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, 2“I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. 3If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way — and some of them have come from a great distance.” 4His disciples replied, “How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?” 5He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” 6Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they distributed them to the crowd. 7They had also a few small fish; and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be distributed. 8They ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. 9Now there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 10And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

via Daily Lectionary Readings — Devotions and Readings — Mission and Ministry — GAMC.

Now, there are two times when Jesus is recorded as feeding the crowds. This is one of them. He did not do it every day. We cannot read into the silence that this was usual. The disciples had seven loaves of bread — they were prepared to be out in the desert. The crowd were not.

We can identify the problem, but we can’t solve it. For example, Paige wrote yesterday:

I believe it is up to men to save the world from feminism.  I know well enough that this doesn’t go over well.  After all, women messed things up so they should be the ones to fix it.

Fair enough, but we can’t.  There is no carrot at the end of our stick.  Its just a stick, and there aren’t enough of us to beat the feminists into submission.

The feminists catered to womens vice.  Traditionalists ask the feminists to turn away from vice and towards virtue.  And whats the reward?  All we can promise is the slight possibility they will have a warm feeling inside, and that just isn’t enough to rewire social conditioning and biological programming.

So women like Alte, Terri, myself, and others can stand on our soap boxes and preach til we are blue in the face but it ain’t gonna change a dang thing.

“But thats not fair! I don’t want to clean up your mess”.   It’s not fair, but keep in mind that the younger generations of women did not make the kool-aid.  They were force-fed the kool-aid in their baby bottles.   Deep down they are craving some wholesome milk, they just wouldn’t recognize it if they saw it because they have only ever known the kool-aid

The comments on this degenerated into arvuing aainst talking points, including the catholic position on birth control. However, I am aware that the kind of behaviour feminists are showing is a sign of God’s judgement (as is the increasing tendency towards homosexuality — we have ignored God and he has given us up to our most base desires).

In the past, this has not been cured by men arguing but by men praying. For revival “first in me”. The confession that it is far easier to not interact with women but with the images of women, or to play X-box — in part because men are penalised by Marriage 2.0. An awareness that we have slept and let the worst kind of women — those who teach the destruction of the family and celebrate evil — into the leadership of our churches and societies. And this “tolerence” has led to a slackening of church discipline and an inability to discern and remove the predators (particularly homosexual men lusting after teenage boys) who choose to work within the institutions to have access to young people. Alte — who by no means is stupid — has not swallowed this kool-aid and neatly summarises the situation thus:

Things will only change if feminists are denied money and sex, which is not within the power of traditionalist women. In other words: down with the welfare/workfare state, down with child support, down with divorce, down with contraception and abortion, down with marrying feminists

I’m afraid that the economic mess we are in is a direct consequence of our choices to go for pleasure at this time, and neither to save for a rainy day nor to provide for the widows and orphans, not set up a society where the aforementioned widows are matched with the local widowers. The current social structure is not sustainable — it is a bubble.

When it bursts, women who have followed the feminist ideas will be poorly served. We need to pray for revival and repentance. The alternative is destruction of our society, and no promise that a better society will arise from the ashes.